All Hallows Eve

When I have watched a scary movie and am lying in bed thinking about it and trying to go to sleep.
I think to myself: "it was just a movie, it was not real".
Sometimes it works and I am able to sleep, but other times it does not work and I spend the night huddled up in my covers whimpering silently through out the night.
I know that some people out there enjoy those kind of films but I really do not see the purpose of being scared out of your pants.
Halloween was originally known as all Hallows Eve and it was a day when supposedly the Vail that separated the heavens from earth was very very thin and that supposedly made it possible for the creatures of Hell and so forth could walk among the living.
The day after Halloween was called Saints Day and I have no idea what was supposed to happen on that particular day.
But when did candy and ghosts and vampires and werewolves and ghouls and all those other hideous creatures come in to the story?.
I could never understand that.
People all around the world have the best time scaring people on Halloween and even though it doesn't make any sense why they do it, or why they enjoy it so much, it is their choice what to do on that confusing day: October 31st.

Happy Halloween!